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At an event marking the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Saturday, the city’s mayor, Kai Wegner, said November 9 remains a fateful day for Germany – both in a positive and negative sense. The date marks both the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and of the beginning of a Nazi-led nationwide wave of terrorism against Jewish people in 1938, which came to be known as the Night of Broken Glass, or Kristallnacht. “Those were incredible moments, incredible hours and days,” the mayor said, speaking of the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which primarily recalls a positive …

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